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Dixie Florida wrote:

So in order to fight "Fascism" on this website. They've gone the route of "Allegedly" colluding with the secretive, unelected, and "Allegedly" corrupt powers that be?

I always find it ironic that the people most likely to shout bootlicker, are often the first to obediently go running to whatever power structure exists above them in order to snitch on and punish people they don't like.

Indeed! And as a shameless plug for my own region, Panjshir Valley (having requested embassies with Dixie), we do feature a dispatch which details the contemporary phenomenon of anti-fascism as an ironic technology of power.

By emphasizing an interpretation of liberty & equality as signified by advancement of minority interests culturally & politically, the powers of both state over its legal constituents and capital over its market participants, are advanced in precise contradiction to the ostensible aims of "the Left" in opposing the power of both state & capital. Ironically, this is how anti-fascist theory characterizes fascism, with the distinction of the latter being accused of doing this by appealing to the majority stock & custom at the expense of the minority stocks & customs.

It is this irony, however, which is jealously defended. Like the character Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror franchise, Antifa wears the original Left's face as the trophy from a victim which it itself murders, recasting itself in the identity of the murdered. The aesthetics of rebellion, and the logistics of tyranny, are what characterize Antifa. You've already highlighted the localized instance of this here on NationStates.

What invigorates Antifa in its vitality, like Leatherface trying to pose as his mask's victim, is vindication of Antifa as anarchists/communists/socialists/leftist, etc. To kill the morale of this grassroots movement, which nonetheless has impact thanks to collaboration with Power, requires calling them out for what they are; a neoliberal paramilitary, not a working class insurrection.

Thank you, this was my TedTalk, haha.